Example sentences of "before but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perform the snap punch exactly as before but turn your hip more than previously . |
| 2 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 3 | often before but not |
| 4 | Ms Gallacher said that Ms McCarthy had tried ecstasy once or twice before but had never had a fit . |
| 5 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 6 | We have tried to use it before but the mountain reception is far from good . |
| 7 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 8 | He had seen her weep before but only for a sick horse , and he was awe-struck . |
| 9 | Zambia had never set foot inside Jahsaxa 's personal space before but , as SHe suspected , it was tastefully bare , illumined softly by concealed lighting . |
| 10 | It was a good day , sunny like the day before but with more wind . |
| 11 | He 's had cuts sometimes before but this was an artery … |
| 12 | Yet Mr Smith is not only proposing to raise tax in one go by more than anyone has ever dared to before but also concentrating the effect on a relatively small group . |
| 13 | Bath had felt it the week before but they had the experience and strength to overcome it . |
| 14 | Obviously the indicated similar remedy is still chosen on the same principles as before but choice of potency , up to now our main variable factor for controlling the response to the remedy , is not such an issue when using the LM 's . |
| 15 | Each tier is pierced by a symmetrical row of windows , the windows varying very slightly from floor to floor — double with rectangle and square , as before but with arched , decorated lintel , single with triangular lintel — and the whole is finished with a stone balustrade . |
| 16 | Should I not , when confronting such decisions , carry on as before but take his advice as a factor counting in favour of the decision he recommends ? |
| 17 | OSF : traffic pollution film : to be provided , you ordered some shots before but did n't confirm : are they the same ones ? |
| 18 | The lighting is considerably brighter than before but even so , the Committee reported , is at the margins of acceptability for the production of pictures of broadcastable quality . |
| 19 | He had newer been out of Scotland before but he did not feel at all homesick . |
| 20 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 21 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 22 | The first interrogator was not the officer who had looked in the day before but a wizened little old man who seemed half afraid of me . |
| 23 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
| 24 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 25 | ‘ Seen you before but I ca n't think who you are ’ sort of look . |
| 26 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |
| 27 | I 've never said this before but I 'll be putting more emphasis [ on Europe ] , because of my understanding of it . |
| 28 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 29 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 30 | Now his attention was focussed on why the tower had bent and his second effort not only bent as before but was even taller than the previous tower . |